[pstricks] Figures in .ps file

Herbert Voss Herbert.Voss at alumni.TU-Berlin.DE
Tue Feb 11 15:59:16 CET 2003


Maria Angela Weiss schrieb:
>>Pstricks is meant to be embedded in a TeX or LaTeX file. So If you
>>are creating your document in plain TeX, LaTeX, or pdfetex/pdfelatex in 
>>dvi mode then the picture will be inserted where you describe it. If
>>however you are using some other method to typeset your paper then you
>>can create the image as a standalone ps file. Then you can use some
>>image manipulation program to reduce the ps file to a correctly sized
>>eps file. I use Gimp.
>>
>>Are you using some form of TeX for your paper?
>>
> 
> Yes, I use latex, but not everyone shares a pstyrick package, so I
> decided to convert in .ps and insert the figure as a .ps file everyone can
> read.

but remember that pstricks is part of any TeX distribution,
so it should be no problem.
Only for special pstricks packages like pst-circ
there may be a problem.

Herbert



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